Why variation matters: On language contact in the development of L2 written German

Plaza-Pust, Carolina

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“…, Savolainen (2006), Takkinen et al (2015) Flemish Vermeerbergen et al (2007bVermeerbergen et al ( , 2007a) French Kuhn (2015), Kuhn and Aristodemo (2017), Millet et al (2015), Hauser (2020) German Glück and Pfau (1998, 1999), Plaza Pust (2008, Pfau and Steinbach, (2005), Wilbur (2017) Greek Antzakas (2006bAntzakas ( , 2006a Kimmelman (2012, Kimmelman, (2017, Khristoforova and Kimmelman (2020) Netherlands Coerts (1992), Oomen and Pfau (2017), van Gijn (2004), Brunelli (2011) Bergman and Wallin (2003), Nilsson (2007), Börstell (2017) Taiwanese Zeshan (2004), Smith (2005), Zhang (2007), Tai and Tsay (2015) Turkish Zeshan (2006), Kubus (2016)…”

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Nominal Word Order Typology in Signed Languages

Coons

2022

Front. Commun.

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Although spoken language nominal typology has been subject to much scrutiny, research on signed language nominal word order typology is still a burgeoning field. Yet, the structure of signed languages has important implications for the understanding of language as a human faculty, in addition to the types of universals that may exist across the world’s languages and the influence of language modality on linguistic structure. This study examines the order of nouns and attributive modifiers (adjectives, numerals, demonstratives, quantifiers, genitives, and relative clauses) in 41 signed languages, which span national and village signed languages from various lineages and geographic regions. Despite previous typological research on clausal phenomena indicating that the clausal structure of signed languages differs systematically from spoken languages (Napoli and Sutton-Spence, 2014, among others), the results of this survey indicate that signed language nominal word order typology is strikingly similar to spoken languages in several ways: 1) the most common word orders in spoken languages are also common in signed languages, 2) the uncommon word orders in spoken languages are also uncommon in signed languages, but are attested, unlike uncommon major constituent orders, and 3) the relative ranking of word order strategies, particularly relative clauses, is similar across signed and spoken languages.

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Section: Finnishmentioning

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Nominal Word Order Typology in Signed Languages

Coons

2022

Front. Commun.

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“…An example from German Sign Language is seen here (the example is from Leuninger, 2000, p. 238; the translation is from Plaza-Pust, 2008, p. 85):…”

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“…This fact is explicitly remarked on by many, and it is subsumed under the figure-ground principle (Happ and Verköper, 2006 ). An example from German Sign Language is seen here (the example is from Leuninger, 2000 , p. 238; the translation is from Plaza-Pust, 2008 , p. 85):…”

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Order of the major constituents in sign languages: implications for all language

2014

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A survey of reports of sign order from 42 sign languages leads to a handful of generalizations. Two accounts emerge, one amodal and the other modal. We argue that universal pressures are at work with respect to some generalizations, but that pressure from the visual modality is at work with respect to others. Together, these pressures conspire to make all sign languages order their major constituents SOV or SVO. This study leads us to the conclusion that the order of S with regard to verb phrase (VP) may be driven by sensorimotor system concerns that feed universal grammar.

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Sign languages in contact

Quinto‐Pozos¹

2015

Sociolinguistics and Deaf Communities

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Why variation matters: On language contact in the development of L2 written German

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